Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution/

00:00 Intro
00:32 The Battle of Point Pleasant
08:09 First Battle of the American Revolution
18:55 Sources
19:21 Connections
20:14 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation"; J.T. McAllister's "The Battle of Point Pleasant"; Virgil Lewis's History of the Battle of Point Pleasant, Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (Now Point Pleasant, West Virginia) Monday, October 10, 1774; Glen Williams' Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era; and West Virginia History's "Manufactured History: Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant".

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The First Battle of the American Revolution? [the Battle of Point Pleasant]

Paul Otlet had a vision of a system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards.

Transcript, links, and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/steampunk-google-and-the-world-city/

00:00 Intro
00:32 Banter
00:57 Steampunk Google and the World City
02:16 International Bibliography
07:21 Going Decimal
10:00 18 Million Index Cards
11:21 Towards the Mundaneum
13:55 World City
18:20 Hope for the League of Nations
20:02 Cité Radieuse and Cité Mondiale
25:16 The Battle for the Cinquantenaire
28:57 Enter Capart
33:33 Steampunk Google
38:23 Let's Not Be Petty and Microphile
41:34 Sources
42:26 Connections
43:58 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Alex Wright’s Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age; Françoise Levie’s L’homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum; Paul Otlet’s Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre; Paul Otlet, Fondateur du Mundaneum, Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix; and the newspaper archive of the KBR.

Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.

Special thanks to the Collection Mundaneum in Mons for their assistance (http://www.mundaneum.org/en) and for providing images for our use. This episode is released under a Creative Commons except for the images, which may not be reproduced without the express permission of the Mundaneum.

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Steampunk Google and the World City [Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum]

R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/

00:00 Intro
00:32 Banter
00:49 Fuller Houses
01:50 Stockade Building Systems
05:42 Lightful Houses
10:32 The 4D House
15:34 The First Dymaxion House
23:01 The Dymaxion [Dwelling | Deployment] Unit
26:56 The Second Dymaxion House
37:07 Later Work
38:58 Why You Don't Live in A Dymaxion House
42:55 Sources
43:50 Connections
44:37 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd Steven Sieden's Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and His Work; and Michael Brian Schiffer's Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed... but especially Lorettta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller, which is both the most thorough and most critical biography of Fuller and definitely worth checking out.

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Fuller Houses [R. Buckminster Fuller's various Dymaxion Houses]

"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/vo...

00:00 Intro
00:32 Vote For Pedro
06:46 The Rest of the Story
16:22 ¿Dónde es Pedro?
20:36 Chiquita
23:40 Sources
23:59 Connections
24:18 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures; Charles J. Cazeau and Stuart D. Scott's Exploring the Unknown: Great Mysteries Reexamined; Jeremy Fugelberg's "The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy"; Richard Marshall's Mysteries of the Unexplained; and contemporary newspaper reports.

And sincere apologies to the Cryptonaturalist (https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/) for biting his style.

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Vote for Pedro [the San Pedro Mountains Mummy]

In the early Twentieth Century, Joe Magarac was the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan. And then it was discovered he might not be an authentic folk tale, but a relatively recent invention...

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/jackass-forever/

00:00 Intro
00:32 Jackass Forever
10:28 The Saga of Joe Magarac, Steelman
14:54 Folklore or Fakelore
20:02 Sources
20:46 Connections
21:00 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Owen Francis's "The Saga of Joe Magarac: Steelman"; Jennifer Gilley and Stephen Burnet's "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Pittsburgh's Man of Steel: Reading Joe Magarac Against the Context of the 20th-Century Steel Industry"; Kevin J. Patrick's "Joe Magarac and the Spirit of Pittsburgh"; and Marshal W. Fishwick's "Sons of Paul: Folklore or Fakelore?".

What I really recommend, though, is Irwin Shapiro's Joe Magarac and his U.S.A Citizen Papers. The dialect is charming instead of grating, the location- and period-authentic detail helps keep everything grounded, the jokes are actually funny, and the moral is still relevant today. And on top of that you have some really powerful illustrations by James Daugherty. Five stars, A+, would read again.

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Jackass Forever [Joe Magarac: folklore or fakelore?]

For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/nothing-but-a-number/

00:00 Intro
00:32 Banter
02:00 Nothing But A Number
02:32 God I Feel Old
05:09 All That Matters is How Young Your Feel
07:44 I Don't Actually Care
10:28 Sources
10:48 Special Thanks
12:56 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Wikipedia and contemporary newspaper reports.

A special thanks to everyone who helped us reach this amazing milestone, including: A.J. Sutton, Alex Baumans, Charlotte Lochinski, Chris White, David Blomenberg, David L. White, Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, Fearful Jesuit, Greg Armstrong, Jenn Voss, Jim Munizza, Kieran Davy, Kristen Harkness, Liz Roberts, Michael Finney, Richard Le Poidevin, Rob Brunksill, Robert B. White III, Robert Sibole, Rod Miller, Sam Link, Steven White, Tom Hand, Zane C. Weber... and you, our wonderful listeners.

After this episode we're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!

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Nothing But A Number [how old is Charo, anyway?]

We are the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope, a secret society devoted to unearthing and sharing forgotten knowledge. And we have a podcast. (Here's a representative sample of recent and popular episodes.)

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope